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This competition[^] is a simple memory challenge, 16 cards with flags on the other side, click to turn a card over, match all 8 pairs of flags.
The top ten fewest clicks go into a draw for an iPad.
Top of the leader board at the moment is someone who took 16 clicks, so didn't make a mistake, although did take quite a long time.
Can anyone work out how to cheat at the game?
(You don't have to give any details to play, only to submit your score).
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Ha! Developer tools make it too easy.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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chriselst wrote: took 16 clicks, so didn't make a mistake
Not if the last two flip automatically after only fourteen flawless clicks.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Yes - take a look at the scores. I reckon I could write a bot to do it in seconds less than a second.
[Edit]
RyanDev is right - with developer tools it's too easy, though they have tried to obfuscate the image names. It doesn't look like they randomise the positions either - simply play once, note the positions and play again.
modified 20-Jun-14 9:21am.
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I did get the Inspect Element thing in Firefox to show me the images when I hovered over the image names once, but I'd already started the timer long before, when I tried without it wouldn't do that.
Restarting the game does randomise, or it did each time I looked.
I wonder if they'll pull the plug on the competition once the leaderboard is full of perfect scores by the end of today.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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There is a flag_1/falg_2/flag_3 and so on class value on the inner div...
I hope you got that no iPad in it. It's a page to collect email addresses for future use...(or are they so dump?)
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: There is a flag_1/falg_2/flag_3 and so on class value on the inner div...
I'm not even sure it's used for anything- the JavaScript perhaps?
Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: I hope you got that no iPad in it
I hadn't considered actually winning - I doubt I'll be in the top 10 much longer which is good as I'd feel bad winning.
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Someone care to explain why they reported me for posting this?
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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you kyboshed their chances of winning an IPad or whatever?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Because it seems like a page to collect email addresses. No-one will give any iPad away. The game is so dump, so easily can be cheated that it is not thinkable that someone who investing an iPad will let it happened...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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So you felt the need to report me because you didn't like the website it linked to?
I made it clear you didn't have to put in an email address to look at the thing.
The website belongs to a company that has been trading since 1845, employes thousands of people and has a turnover of hundreds of million.
They might employ some slightly crap web devs, but it is a a company that does not need to resort to simple tricks to mine email addresses, and if it doesn't have the prize to give away it will be in quite a lot of trouble under UK laws, running competitions is very tightly regulated.
Anyway, thanks for the report oh lord of the webs.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I didn't report you my friend. It was merely an observation backed-up with the experience about our trigger-happy fellow CPians...
chriselst wrote: UK laws
I do not know about it - around here there is no much regulation...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Now I wonder how it deals with Canuckian laws.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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An iPad is a very cheap prize but with a huge fan pool.
OK, it might eventually be expensive for a single individual, but for a company it's peanuts.
If to that you add a dumb game, the word will spread and chances are you'll mine a lot of emails 
It's never about the quality of the responses, is about the amount!!
This is way cheaper than any other way to publicize something or just gather contacts.
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You probably right...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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AlexCode wrote: If to that you add a dumb game, the word will spread and chances are you'll mine a lot of emails
It's never about the quality of the responses, is about the amount!!
It's not about getting the email addresses, although lots of online competitions do exist for that sole purpose, but to increase web traffic and ad revenue.
But if someone is going to object to being a facilitator to that then pretty much every single link posted will get reported.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I've been using x-notifier. It works fine for email but the inconvenience is that it displays ads whenever a web page is visited. The ads often covers part of content and makes it hard to read.
TOMZ_KV
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Have you tried using AdBlock to get rid of the ads? I've found that works pretty well, not sure whether or not it would work for that though.
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If you write your own rules you can block arbitrary crap content in the browser. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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None; the idea of mail is that I do not get notified. There's IM for immediate disturbances.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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I thought the idea of Email was to send and receive Email... ?
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Yes, as the name implies; electronic mail, not an immediate message.
You could ask the same for mail versus telephone - if you don't need an answer right now then don't call. For the recruiters, the answer is ruder: don't ever call again.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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